Running Back Thru Canada

Artist: The Guess Who
Label: RCA
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 078636809328
EAN: 0078636809328
ASIN: B00005QXCY

Release Date: 2001-11-06

Running Back Thru Canada

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Tracks:

Runnin' Back To Saskatoon
Guns Guns Guns
These Eyes
Rain Dance
Glamour Boy
Lookin' Out For #1
Sour Suite
No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
Talisman
Let It Ride
Undun
Follow Your Daughter Home

Tracks:

American Woman
Albert Flasher
Hand Me Down World
Orly
Takin' Care Of Business
Laughing
Clap For The Wolfman
Bus Rider
No Time
Share The Land

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Customer Reviews:

I enjoyed the live guitar work.......2006-05-09

I have not been a Guess Who fan and did not own any of their music. Then I saw them in a taped live performance shown on PBS. I liked their guitar work and bought this album. I have enjoyed it. Comparing the play list to "Live at the Paramount", this album has 2 more hits: No Sugar Tonight and Undun. I like guitars and do not look for great singing, so I cannot say much about the criticisms other reviewers have made about the singing. My complaint is that they packaged some dumb pseudo-blues piece with "American Woman." There is 6 minutes of crud preceeeding "American Woman." If they had packaged the crud as a separate song I could index past it on my CD player. Too bad they bundled them together. I do enjoy the album.

went to concerts.......2005-11-10

musicianship excellent. voice, for burt at least, is gone. to bad because it was great. man that guy could sing, anyone who has ever heard "humpty's blues" knows what i mean. oh well, you had a good run. everyone gets old. maybe pure jazz or some other redirection of material(think brian eno). ya still got that wheatfield soul. can't lose that.

just don't try to sing what you can't anymore. hey, you're lucky, most of the rest of us never could.

Know when to say stop!.......2005-01-03

If everyone who ever liked this band were asked, What makes the Guess Who definitive sound?, the answer has to be Burton Cummings stellar and unique vocal talentss. Listen to Live at the Paramount and hear him sing in all his glory when his vocal chops were still intact. Paul McCartney's recent live album also suffers from aged vocals, but it's a bit more listenable, probably because he just didn't sing that many hard rockers. Sad to say, that Cummings, another 60ish (as in years old) rocker wasn't as fortunate. His lead vocals are bloody awful and it almost sounds like a bad Cummings impersonator belting the songs out. It's too painful to listen to very long. Just get Live at the Paramount and enjoy the band at their best. I went to a concert about 15 years ago that started out with Steppenwolfe and headlined The Guess Who. Fortunately, John Kay was still singing well and they rocked the house. As for The Guess Who, I'm not sure who was in the lineup, but it sure wasn't Cummings singing the lead. They were literally booed off the stage! You can show your support for the original band by seeing them in concert, but don't encourage them by buying up CDs like this. Sad to say, it's over and these guys should just kick back and reflect upon the hellofa ride that they had. Either that or find someone who can sing exactly like Cummings use to. Cummings really drags the rest of the band down despite his enthusiastic efforts. If you think I'm kidding, PLEASE take advantage of Amazon's track cuts and listen for yourself. It's a pity that what once was the starring vehicle for this band is now the weakest link. Take a pass on this CD regardless of how big a fan you were or are. I give this four stars for the material minus two stars for the actual production of these great, old rockers.

For competists only.......2004-02-23

This 2-CD set is or die-hard completists only.It's nice to see the group back together,and this set is undoubtedly a good souvenir if you were at one of these shows.The group's playing ablity is intact,and these mid to late 50-ish musicians gave their audience a satisfactory evening of entertainment,but the 4-pack a day smoking of which lead singer/pianist Burton Cummings once boasted has taken its' toll.His voice is fried to a crisp,and almost unrecognizably different from the voice on the old 1968-76 RCA albums.His voice is now whiny and constricted in the upper part of his range.Stick with one of RCA's hits packages,and hear the group in its'heyday.

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